Snow blankets a backyard in Woodbury, Tenn., on Monday. (Courthouse News photo/Kevin Lessmiller)
SAN ANTONIO (CN) More than 160,000 people in Texas and Louisiana remained without power Monday morning after the year’s first winter storm swept through the South over the weekend, forcing dozens of schools and government offices to close.
The blast of cold temperatures and snowfall – the largest amount recorded in the Austin-San Antonio area since Christmas Day 2004 – unloaded up to nine inches of snow in other parts of Texas and triggered slick road conditions and black ice warnings Monday morning.
A Texas snowman is seen in Austin on Sunday. (Courthouse News photo/Madison Venza)